What is a flat?

Answer 1

Flat has many meanings and definitions. As observed in dictionaries, flat means:

• lying at full length or spread out upon the ground :prostrate
• utterly ruined or destroyed
• resting with a surface against something
• having a continuous horizontal surface
• being or characterized by a horizontal line or tracing without peaks or depressions
• having a relatively smooth or even surface
• arranged or laid out so as to be level or even
• having the major surfaces essentially parallel and distinctly greater than the minor surfaces flat piece of wood>

• clearly unmistakable flat denial>

• not varying : fixed flat rate> (2) : having no fraction either lacking or in excess : exact flat 10 seconds> (3) of a frequency response : not varying significantly throughout its range

• lacking in animation, zest, or vigor : dull

• lacking flavor : tasteless

• lacking effervescence or sparkle <flat Ginger Ale>

• commercially inactive; also : characterized by no significant rise or decline from one period to another flat>

• of a tire : lacking air : deflated

• chiefly British of a battery : dead 3c, discharged

Answer 2

A flat is an apartment or small home that does not have any stairs. It is flat, that is, all on one level.

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From the Scottish word flet, meaning the inner part of a house

Answer 3

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